David Minichiello, Disney's creative development director has reported to the Telegraph that Disneyland Paris is looking into adding the Jack Sparrow overlay to its POTC attraction.

With Euro Disney's fortunes declining it may be tougher to fund big budget rides but Mr Minichiello adds that "budget is not as big a focus as making sure it is successful aesthetically and from the guest's point of view".
One trick up his sleeve is introducing Disney's ever-expanding portfolio of brands to its older rides.
"Sometimes we will be asked to look at older attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean and freshen them up," Minichiello says.
"Children today grew up with the movies, so we put animatronic characters from the movies in the ride in Florida and we are looking at doing it here in Paris."

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I really don't have a problem with Disneyland Paris wanting to add the Characters from the movie to the attraction. And the way I see it, the Paris version looks weak because it hasn't receieved the update yet. I'm also hoping Management can look into fairly quickly changing Star Tours once the US Parks have completed the Star Tours II projects. The only time I'm against these sort of enhancements is when the upgrade ruins the attraction like Space Mountain Mision II, which sucks or the Tiki Room featuring Stitch at Tokyo Disneyland.

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I know many of you will disagree with me, but in my opinion Jack Sparrow would be a great addition. At least we loved it at WDW.

PotC in Paris needs the upgrade, because it is a walk on attraction and many people are not interested anymore. I'm sure PotC will get more attention with Jack and Barbossa again. PotC is one of our favorite attractions and it really dserves more people.

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I am actually looking forward to seeing the "classic" POTC when I go to DLP in October. I do like the addition of the film's music to the ride, and don't mind Jack & Capt B in there (except for the treasure room scene - :thumbdown ).

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I have to agree with golden redhead. I am looking forward to seeing the "classic" version of the ride (Which I personally haven't seen since 1986). I don't mind the updated version, but I think it is neat to keep at least one park in the world with the classic one.

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In all honestly, DLR's POTC film overlay has taken away from the originality of the ride and focuses it more towards the films. I feel that they added too many noticeable characters and references to the film. I think that a non-speaking Jack Sparrow AA or two could do the trick, but the Davy Jones mist projection, the talking Jack Sparrow at the very end, and the POTC film music with Barbossa, overdid it completely.

"Well I don't know about you folks, but it's way past my bedtime."

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I wonder if such an overlay would reflect the POTC films so far or the one coming up. But I'd miss being able to see the original ride setup from when I was a kid next time I'm at DLRP. Maybe they should just give Sparrow and Skellington their own attractions, like in here: 2 Jack doujinshi by Kuma

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I just hope that the budget is cut so that the *level* of integration is lower than at the Anaheim park. I don't mind the idea of Jack Sparrow being included at a base level--but it's too much. Instead of having *a* scene with Jack, nearly every village scene is now about Jack. Instead of searching for treasure, they're searching for Jack! It makes no sense to me that the Spanish town refuses to give up Jack Sparrow! Instead have Jack make a single appearance (in the treasure room) or two without the dialogue being all about him, and it becomes much more palatable. The Anaheim version feels like Imagineering brought a list of possible places to include Sparrow, and said "Ok, which one should we do?" and management simply replied, "all of them!" It's just too much....